Joan Fontaine actress (1917-2013)

[@randyacuna3248]

Anytime she is in on screen, I just can't take my eyes off her. Stunning.

[@eddiecheung7795]

She was so elegant, beautiful and a great actress. Miss her!

[@amandasmith2159]

She always appeared to be such a wonderful lady, such a beautiful smiling face, honest and warm. Loved her in Rebecca... came across so natural for the time. She’s ‘up there’ one of my many favourites.

[@Kashoo-n5r]

She seems really glamorous, but really genuine at the same time. Healthy sense of humour... great stuff

[@donnawilcock5774]

Such a beautiful, gracious lady with a lovely speaking voice.

[@mimicrybypravesh]

Her performance is Rebecca was one of the all time greats.

[@macc.1132]

I agree and she (or perhaps Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story) should have nabbed the Oscar. Ginger Rogers was well respected and her film a nice success, and so she surprisingly won instead. I believe the Academy awarded Fontaine an Oscar for Suspicion on the strength of her performance in Rebecca. It's incredible she's the only actor from a Hitchcock film to win an Academy Award. One thing I have noticed from a lot of viewers is their dislike for the second Mrs. De Winter character. Her insecurity and emotional outbursts might have something to do with it and I don't think modern audiences are used to the protagonist having such an "inferiority complex" as Fontaine puts it above. But the character is only supposed to be about 20 years old; her father, her only family member, has recently died and she accepted a job as a traveling companion to an affluent, vicious old woman; she's swept off her feet and then marries an older, wealthy English aristocrat whose first wife "haunts" the manor - everyone, especially the sinister housekeeper, constantly reminds the second Mrs. de Winter of how impressive Rebecca was, in both her beauty and her character, implying that the second Mrs. de Winter can't possibly contend with her. How else is a 20 year old girl supposed to act, then? The entire film is a standout.

[@gwp5066]

yes, maybe a make up for the loss in Rebecca

[@boojay111]

just watched the one of Olivia de Havilland her sister and no plastic surgery anywhere, what a change and so beautiful in all her 102 years and Joan also. Both classic, tasteful and more style than all the new Hollywood put together.

[@joanclawford8964]

She was an incredibly elegant woman... Kind nature too...

[@michelegreene2905]

I love Joan as well Olivia. Both are great actresses. It’s sad about their rivalry. But in the end both successful.

[@merricat3025]

Success is nothing without somebody to share it with

[@iknatenhotepamma5189]

Absolutely adorably beautiful .......im totally obsessed ,infatuated & deeply in love with her & her sister both are legends

[@docsmithdc]

Always liked her.She seemed to have an inner beauty as well as the outward beauty.Even when she was no longer "young"(Island In The Sun) I could not take my eyes off of her.

[@FabiWe91]

I wish my navigation system had her voice and accent.

[@chrispines9509]

Great beauty, great actress, but most of all, a very smart and happy lady. She lived a life which was more meaningful and happier than other actresses of her generation. Love her!!!

[@vivsleigh2054]

Love this lady! What an actress!

[@Riz2336]

Loved her man, she used to send me christmas cards and stuff. Just a great actress with so much talent and a nice lady

[@privatedeborah1004]

She did this to me too. I wrote to her beeing still a starstruck teenager and to my great surprise and utter delight she not only replied to my clumsy letter but proceeded to send me postcards on every christmas for years.

[@duantorruellas716]

What a timeless beauty she was , Laura linney reminds me of her a bit.

[@marchellebrunelle3786]

I felt sorry for her . I think her mother liked Olivia more as Joan looked liked her father and her mother did not like him. She fought for equal love from her mother. Olivia looked like her mother so she got more love from her.

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

Olivia and Joan looked a lot alike, just Olivia had darker hair and eye color.

[@RanBlakePiano]

My favorite. Letter from an unknown Woman

[@Sunshine-zm1fx]

Thank you so much, George, for posting these wonderful interviews.

[@thomasbarrientos6234]

Love Joan's voice,I always preferred her over her sister Olivia.Found Olivia to be very two-faced;with Joan I felt you you got what you saw and was very direct.

[@jasonhurd4379]

That's exactly the impression I've always had. Olivia seemed phony and hypocritical, as if she were always wearing a mask. Joan was straight up, no nonsense, as well as being very pleasant and charming. To me there's no contest between the two, though I will say that Olivia was absolutely magnificent as Catherine Sloper in The Heiress, a multi-dimensional and moving performance.

[@quitequiet1]

Thomas Barrientos That is how I perceive Olivia also. Of the two, I think Olivia is the better actress, but I like Joan much better because she is so much more sincere as a person.

[@privatedeborah1004]

Exactly my impression too. Olivia de Havilland considered herself like Melanie in Gone with the Wind. It became a farce in later years, I guess she was more responsible for the feud than Joan. Joan was a feisty and strong woman, who unlike most of her famous screen characters did not like to be a victim.

[@kangarookids7497]

If Joan was so great, why did Joan first SNUB Olivia's congratulation attempt, when Joan got the first Oscar. Also, Joan was the jealous one. She had no intention of acting until Olivia "fell" into it. Joan was always copying, crowding ,and trying to outdo Olivia. Also, in interviews Olivia did not continuously compare herself to Joan, but that is all Joan could talk about, always making sure Olivia looked bad. Sounds pretty narcissistic to me. Also during WWIi Olivia was continuously visiting military hospitals on the fighting fronts, even getting sick herself (pneumonia). Due to her humble, soothing, presence, she was the only star that military doctors requested visit the Psychiatric wards. This is why she made movies later on about mental illness, to shed light on this tragic condition. Olivia was always thinking of the greater good. Olivia was a deep thinker and a giver. By comparison, Joan was relatively shallow (immature), and Joan knew it.

[@evatervala4033]

Real Beautiful Lady.

[@privatedeborah1004]

She remained beautiful even in old age

[@mattwiggin9458]

One word class

[@dawoodspainter]

Love this Joan Fontaine

[@crimsonspice72]

She is what my grandmother would call a badass broad. She was just that...a badass broad👍🏽 Love her

[@peterjeffery8495]

She made her mark playing the shy, sweet heroine and she played it well. Her sister Olivia could do sweet and saintly well too. Behind the scenes these two Ladies had an awful feud that was really acrimonious as they didn't speak for decades. Anyone know what the issue was between these 2?

[@mariawilkins542]

Love her so much !!!!

[@thechaplainisin8598]

Interesting that in one interview she says the publicity folks made up the feud and in another she says the feud started at birth. Nothing to do with how great an acttor Ms. Fontaine was.

[@dianejohnson5216]

I think Joan is the better sister

[@kangarookids7497]

I don't

[@footscorn]

Her parents were British?? I thought she was British - American.

[@abookishfable8268]

British-Japanese

[@paxwallacejazz]

Fontain was an actress who embodied an older melodramatic style Her sister however Olivia de Havalind like Donna Reed had a more modern feel as well as a broader range.

[@user-ir8mf7km6w]

How nice to be bored by Champagne and roses and live bands and dance floors. She is literally not living in the same world as everyone else. Seems like a lovely woman but completely out to lunch.

[@LiyaRayn]

I read her book “ there is no bed of roses “ … Olivia has real dignity , ……

[@leilanileedouthit6213]

#FACSINATING#INTERVIEW..#EVEN#MORE#FACSINATING#WOMAN#HONEST.. #FORTHRIGHT..#JOAN#FONTAINE..#RIP

[@eezyclsmooth9035]

She has a striking resemblance another OSCAR winner Anna Paquin.

[@direfranchement]

Um no.

[@rikkiwear853]

She can't keep her stories straight. First she said there was no feud with her sister and then later she claims there was.

[@HappilyPeculiar7]

According to Joan she didn't consider it a feud in the sense that others meant it to be. They just were never that close. I believe that to be true even form hearing Olivia side. They just were never close growing up then went into the same industry which leads to natural rivalry and being pitted against eachother. They then just came to enjoy picking at eachother for the rest of their lives.

[@youturd55]

Shame Oliva was not in Rebecca with Olivier 😉

[@kevinwilson3609]

Why when Joan was perfect?

[@wendy-leemorrissirrom8636]

Sister olivera

[@秋月泊京]

adele looks like her…

[@maxipaz5597]

Nothing like her

[@davidfairbrother4292]

I agree- "Nothing like her"..

[@direfranchement]

Seriously wtf are you high?

[@user-ir8mf7km6w]

meh a bit too pretentious for me